Q&A

5.19.15 | Issue #17

The Musk name is most often associated with innovation in today's world, and while older brother Elon might make the news for his electric cars and rocket ships, it's younger brother Kimbal's devotion to food justice in communities across Colorado, Illinois, and Tennessee that we're all about.

Formally trained by the French Culinary Institute in New York, Musk's determination to make access to good food a basic human right has spawned eight locations under the umbrella of founding restaurant The Kitchen—co-founded with his wife, designer Jen Lewin, and chef Hugh Matheson—and a non-profit connecting kids to real food through a Learning Gardens program, The Kitchen Community.

All very serious and important, so we asked him about swear words and outer space.

do you believe in luck?

Yes, if you show up.

what does your neighborhood sound like?

Fire trucks and people.

childhood nickname?

K.

when i have a day off, I...

Hang with my kids.

book you've read more than five times?

The Hobbit.

sketch a self-portrait in under one minute:

the one industry I am constantly in awe of outside of my own:

Farmers.

first thing i do after arriving in a new country:

Eat.

drink of choice at the end of the day

Scotch, single malt.

my weirdest skill I'm extremely proud of

Telling dirty jokes.

WOULD YOU RATHER TAKE A TRIP TO OUTER SPACE OR THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN?